Kentucky reaches a new low in white Christian nationalism

[marmar]

Kentucky reaches a new low in white Christian nationalism
There’s no proof that Kentucky Christians are being persecuted — and yet many seem determined to believe otherwise.

Nov. 30, 2023, 5:34 PM EST
By Teri Carter


(MSNBC) Here in Kentucky, we have reached a new low in white Christian nationalist politics.

Barely a week after Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear decisively won re-election in our deep-red state, parents Brad and Stacy Briscoe marched their teenage daughter to the front of an Anderson County Schools Board meeting — and effectively outed her.

Hundreds packed that Nov. 13 board meeting, held less than 15 miles from the state Capitol. They came, they said in speech after speech, to support the Briscoes, who had filed a complaint stating that their daughter was groomed by a school counselor, and to demand the superintendent and counselor be fired.

“The counselor acted inappropriately by encouraging the student to seek a legal consultation regarding emancipation without her parents’ knowledge or consent,” according to the Lexington Herald Leader’s summary of the complaint. “In February, the student told her parents that she and her female classmate were in a romantic relationship and had been since the fall of 2022. The Briscoes expressed to (their daughter) their strong opposition to homosexuality, which was based upon convictions derived from their Christian faith.” (The Briscoes, reports the Herald Leader, “insist that the reason for the daughter’s punishment was her dishonesty with her parents, not her sexuality.”) ..............(more)

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kentucky-anderson-county-school-board-christian-nationalism-rcna127149

[Bettie]

1. Wow, wonder why

The young woman did not want to talk to her parents. Poor kid. If you can’t love your kid unconditionally why even have them?

[Hekate]

2. I've known a couple of women who became legally emancipated minors when they were teens

In both cases, abuse was an issue.

I think telling someone with those kinds of decisions on their mind to consult a lawyer is totally appropriate. The lawyer isn’t going to just pull out a stack of forms to fill out and jump on the phone to a judge; he or she will talk and advise first.

The Briscoes have just lost their daughter for good, whether she stays awhile longer or not. I couldn’t find how old she is, but I hope she has a good exit plan for the moment she turns 18.

What a horrible thing to do.

[Chi67]

3. After this horrible event

It is obvious that this poor girl should be emancipated. Hopefully, any judge should be able to see that.

[vercetti2021]

4. So these two will be those type of parents

"Why doesn't my child ever call me?!" Fuck both of these idiots. Enjoying dying together in your old age without your daughter being there to see you off to hell.

[DFW]

5. «She's leaving home»

« Bye Bye »

[onethatcares]

6. "after living alone

for so many years."

[DFW]

7. That line applies especially in this case, I'll bet n/t